linux-kernel - Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

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Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:42:13 +0200
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, reiserfs-list@...esys.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

On Sun, 27 August 2006 01:04:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Like lib/inflate.c (and this new code should arguably be in lib/).
> 
> The problem is that if we clean this up, we've diverged very much from the
> upstream implementation.  So taking in fixes and features from upstream
> becomes harder and more error-prone.

I've had an identical argument with Linus about lib/zlib_*.  He
decided that he didn't care about diverging, I went ahead and changed
the code.  In the process, I merged a couple of outstanding bugfixes
and reduced memory consumption by 25%.  Looks like Linus was right on
that one.

> I'd suspect that the maturity of these utilities is such that we could
> afford to turn them into kernel code in the expectation that any future
> changes will be small.  But it's not a completely simple call.
> 
> (iirc the inflate code had a buffer overrun a while back, which was found
> and fixed in the upstream version).

Dito in lib/zlib_*.  lib/inflage.c is only used for the various
in-kernel bootloaders to uncompress a kernel image.  Anyone tampering
with the image to cause a buffer overrun already owns the machine
anyway.

Whether any of our experiences with zlib apply to lzo remains a
question, though.

Jörn

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